Scoteinus orion Troughton, 1937c

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 399

Scoteinus orion Troughton, 1937c

Aust. Zool. 8(4): 277. (12 March 1937).

Common name. Eastern Broad-nosed Bat.

Current name. Scotorepens orion ( Troughton, 1937c) , following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. M.6115 by original designation. Male, skull, study skin, collection date not given, registered 26 May 1936, donated by J. H. Hinchcliffe senior.

Condition. Cranium missing left zygomatic arch; left dentary missing third molar. Study skin: bald patch on the ventral surface and the skin appears faded.

Type locality. All Saints Church, Hunters Hill, Sydney, NSW.

Paratypes. (14, 13 by subsequent determination). All Saints Church, Hunters Hill, Sydney, all presented by Mr J. H. Hinchliffe, Snr., registered 26 May 1936: M.6116, male, skull, body in alc.; M.6117, female (allotype), skull, study skin; and M.6118–25, eight males, all with skulls extracted and bodies in alc.; M.3755, male, skull, body in alc., collected by H. Grant and J. H. Wright, and M.3759, male, body in alc., collected by E. Troughton, H. Grant and J. H. Wright, both registered 22 April 1926; [S.1738, cranium and dentaries only, All Saints Church, Hunters Hill, presented by H. Grant and J. H. Wright, registered 8 February 1926]. M.5163, male, skull, body in alc., Mosman, Sydney, donated by Ronald Kay, registered September 1931.

Comments. Troughton states that he examined 15 specimens, and gave registration numbers for the holotype and allotype only. The remaining 13 specimens are treated here as paratypes, either because they were indicated as such in Troughton’s handwriting in the M Register or on specimen labels. See Kitchener & Caputi (1985) for photographs of the holotype skull and detailed skull and external measurements of the holotype.